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On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 14 February 2010 22:10:05 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> Mostly in support of (I think) KDE I have poppler installed which |
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>> seems to cause eix-test-obsolete a little indigestion. It sees |
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>> virtual/poppler as installed but says they are not in the database. |
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>> Do I have a problem here (eix-test-obsolete itself or my use of it, |
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>> use flags, some sort of database problem, etc.) or is this some sort |
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>> of ebuild problem that will likely get worked out over the next few |
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>> weeks? |
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> I saw this a few days ago. |
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> virtual/poppler is not in portage anymore. We now just have regular poppler, |
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> xpdf, et al. |
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> Just remove poppler from world if you have it there - you shouldn't, it's a |
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> lib and should be pulled in by everything that DEPENDs on it. |
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> Latest masked portage deals with this kind of nonsense nicely. If you use an |
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> old portage, you may have to unmerge what you have and remerge the real one. |
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> FWIW, poppler is one of those packages seemingly run by an insane idiot. Every |
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> new minor point version seems to block the one before it, implying API/ABI |
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> breaks across minor versions. Which is thick beyond belief. It's a problematic |
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> package and one that I seemed to umerge/merge often in the pre-portage-2.2 |
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> days |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Alan, |
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poppler isn't in my world file: |
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firefly ~ # cat /var/lib/portage/world | grep poppler |
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firefly ~ # |
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and I seem to be using the newest portage-2.2_rc62 although a slightly |
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older portage-utils-0.2.1 |
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Are you suggesting the I unmerge poppler and then do a |
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revdep-rebuild (or emerge -DuN @world) to get it reinstalled without |
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this problem? Easy enough if it works, but even if it works it seems |
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something is brokern and before I destroy the symptom I thought I'd |
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ask a couple of questions. |
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I've read a couple of bug reports that echo your thoughts about the package. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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